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Thursday, January 05, 2012

Paris Pop-up Shop

Paris Dreams Shop, 9" x 11"

I planned to open an 'imaginary' Pop-up Paris souvenir shop pre-Christmas. I didn't get around to it, but it's not too late right? I planned to import real French bollards to put in front of the shop... It would be nice to have a little cafe corner. There will be FREE/gratis petit fours for everyone. But you will have to pay for the caramels beurre sale And Carambar caramels. This 'imaginary' shop will only carry Parisientchotchkes (under $20). It will include all the junk I meant to pick last trip but never got around to, like these Comptoir de Famille hot chocolate bowls.

Any tchotcka with 'Paris je t'aime' on it...

Or Paris dogs makes the grade.

Plus those adorable street sign magnets but bigger. Paris has much better postcards than NYC.

Do you agree?

Very girly.

Very pink.

I bought my ticket to Paris yesterday for March, so maybe next trip I'll bring back tons of Paris junk and really open a pop-up shop.

OMG ~ j'aime your shop! It's a wonderful dream. Definitely must have your watercolors too...or at least postcards of them. My favorite 'Paris junk' is a very cool Coke can, any & all paper trash, and postcards (e.g. kooky Eiffel tower images, including a very mildly risque one, Metro maps, museum guides, ticket stubs, you name it); but the piece de resistance (sp?) is a one liter old timey style glass milk bottle like the milkmen of old used to carry in metal baskets! It's impressed on the bottom 'FRANCE'...we decant our 2% into it and feel soooo smug! ...LOL I have a business connection to the word 'Metro" so I was thrilled to find a huge postcard replica of the actual Metro sign, which I keep on my desk.

Oh fun a pop up shop. I want Eiffle towers. The kind you see on the street for sale in Paris.. :))) Well one can dream. Love the painting. Cool on getting your ticket now. Another Fun trip to take vicariously thru you. :)

Murissa,The best arrondisement is the one you're in at the moment IMHO.They're all little villages with their own special characteristics.I like to stay in different areas in Paris so I can to get to know them..Next visit it will be the 11th.

Those things in front of your 'to be' shop ain't "bAllards", they're "bOllards". I should know having tripped over one while gawking at studio sky lights in Montmartre and breaking a rib on a trip to Paris a couple of years ago - didn't stop me from enjoying Sacre Coeur, however.

What a great idea. You should do it for real. As far as 'junk', I am a BIG fan of everything Eiffel. I plan to score one of the big gold towers from one of the guys selling them in the Tuileries before I go. Galleries Lafayette sell a very cute retro-look Eiffel snow globe that is also on my list. There is a jewellery designer near the Place des Vosges who does sterling silver origami-style Eiffel pendants. Ok, this is not 'junk' but a pop up store needs stuff at all price points :)

If not an artist,goat herdress, I would like to have an eccletic French boutique too! I thought I would set up a studio towards the back, but I would be annoyed if customers interupted me in my creative zone, and my shop hours would be short due to farm chores! Fun to imagine, I know I would come to your PopUP Shop! I love ephemera! Would you sell chocolate Effiel Towers?

The postcards are super GORGEOUS!!! How come I didn't see them in my last trip to Paris? I admire that you tour Paris like a local and not a tourist. Maybe you should do a feature on other parts of France like the French riviera? :)

of all the things in this post that i love, and i love them all, the one i love the most is the post card- paris really does have the best ones ! favorite stops for cute and unique ones are - rue mouffetard (towards the low end), behind centre pompidou and rue st andré des arts ...